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Voice
Your voice can make a difference
Your voice could change the world
Can my voice be someone else's
Cause I don't want to be heard
Can my voice be a text post
On a site that none reads
I can write the poem
But I won't stand up and speak
Can my voice be a gesture
Can a murmur change the world
Cause I wish for none
To hear me say words
I could change my voice
...
Thursday 7th November 2024 9:34 pm
Human things
Boys don't do that
None does
It’s not a gender thing
It’s a human thing
As far as I know
I’m failing
None pays all their attention
To the way they walk
And how they talk
Not as much as me
All I've learnt
Is that I'm strange
In the way I walk
And the way I talk
None does the same
It just means I'm unique
But it makes me feel
Like I'...
Wednesday 23rd October 2024 11:58 pm
Uniform
Fixed my binder
Ripped my tights
Gave bad dating advice
In a uniform
that doesn't fit me right
I walked the walk
I fought the fight
I danced to Chappel Roan
With all my might
Cause I love the dance
And I love my friends
So I'll stay in a skirt
Until the end
If it means that I can
Spend more time with them
Wednesday 28th August 2024 6:27 am
I'm just like you
I’m just like you
Now I won't sleep
Staying up till
Half past three
‘cause I feel more like
Myself than usually
I’m just like you
Shirtless on the floor
Please ignore the binder
I have been a guy all day
For fourteen hours straight
Please respect the grind
The fourteen hour pain
I’m just like you
I’m just pretend
Only awake till half past ten
...Sunday 25th August 2024 6:35 am
n. an act or instance of damaging or altering something radically (03/02/2024)
mutilation,
they call it.
mutilation,
like i’m a butcher
in search of meat to cleave,
and rather than stain my knife
on the skins of bleating livestock
or sweat over a hunt or chase,
i choose the path of least resistance:
myself, my flesh, my matter—
so naïve and unknowing,
defenceless in the face of change.
mutilation,
as if the weight
i mean to carve away
isn’t unwelcome or di...
Monday 5th February 2024 4:09 pm
My First Prayer
I pray every one of their children is gay.
Lord, make it so.
I pray one of their sons
murders them in cold blood,
while the rest of their kids cover it up.
Maybe I've spent too long
not focusing on the problem.
Lord, make me ungay.
I want to be taken seriously,
get off this disability.
publish poetry in Braille,
and give all my earnings to charity.
If I promise to pray for your sake,
...
Thursday 12th October 2023 1:47 am
Awkward Questions
Awkward Questions
Awkward questions, I don’t want to speak
Leave it alone, the hurt is too deep
Pick at the scab and I’m sure to bleed
In silence I scream, this is not what I need
The one word answers
Can’t you see that it hurts
Things buried so deep
You are trying to unearth
I don’t want to face it
I’m not ready for that
Inner thoughts are my secrets
That ...
Wednesday 20th July 2022 9:34 pm
Acceptance
Explaining you about my sexuality won't help
Explaining you about my existence won't help
Thought you are my buddy, will get me without explaining much.
I am just a bit different, can't you get this much.
I know you have a life partner to share all your tensions,
And wanted me to be happy, and feel all that emotions,
But I am happy just by myself,
You again and again telling me what to do...
Sunday 14th February 2021 5:13 pm
LOVE PHILOSOPHY
Don't judge me with your bitterness.
Don't care how you dress.
To me, it doesn't matter who you kiss.
Love is a philosophy, not an activity.
Don't force your adjectives on me.
My acceptance is on the content of your character.
Selfishness is the only way you know how to care.
The way you walk through life.
It is like walking on the edge of a knife.
Cutting awa...
Friday 5th February 2021 9:40 pm
In Waves
That phrase,
That phrase you love to say
It has become overdone, cliché
No, it’s not a phase
Wait,
Years, not days
And see
I will not change
Not this way or that way
Though I may grow,
I may expand in waves,
I will not change
To fit your phrase
I will only expand,
Expand in waves
Is that okay?
That I will stay?
That I won’t change?
That I can only expand,
Expand in waves?
Is th...
Wednesday 23rd September 2020 3:06 pm
Sympathies for the Preacher
I see that depraved preacher man
Spewing at me variations of hate
For knowing variations of love,
Male, Female,
Romantic, Lustful.
In the shallowness of skin deep I have learned self-love.
I have found beauty in my body
Where I once could only envision the brokenness
A gaping hole where my heart was.
For so many years I had to reject what I felt
Kept pulling chunks of...
Sunday 5th November 2017 5:21 am
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